Legal Opinion
Aaron Lindh v. James P. Murphy, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 12, 1996No. 95-3608PublishedCited by 523 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In January 1988 Aaron Lindh marched into the City-County Building of Madison, Wisconsin, and shot three strangers for no apparent reason. Two died. Lindh pleaded guilty to carrying and using a firearm in a public building; a jury convicted him of two murders and one attempted murder. During the second phase of a bifurcated proceeding, Lindh argued that he was insane at the time of the shootings, which under Wisconsin law would alter the place of his confinement (from a prison to a prison-hospital) and entitle him to release if at some future time he should be deemed…
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